Passively Cooled Haswell-E Workstation PC

Yikes, that looks nice alright.Â Deltatronic is releasing Â a system with a &quot;heavy duty convector cooler&quot;. The side panel of the case is a single piece of extruded aluminum with large cool...

Really good idea for a CPU cooing. But doesn't seem suited to GPU cooling due to lack of VRM and memory IC cooling as ven0m thought about and the company is charging insane amount of money for this. I think the whole thing can be locally built for less than 1/10th price of this big Deltatronic cooler concept.

Actually an excelent idea, it is way to expensive for what it is, and I believe venom has got a valid point: What about vrm cooling?

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Actually, you can find a lot of great passive builds @ SPCR. It's a great community to join when looking into silent computing.

But their pure passive builds are extreme and frequently discouraged. Also, a tiny bit of active cooling does wonders. Just use high-quality very low RPM fans - for heatsinks and general case airflow, paired with case where there's no direct sight of fans, and low-power components. You shouldn't be able to hear any coils, rattling, or even air sound even at night with closed windows, and the performance will be an order of magnitude better than pure passive solution.

Actually, you can find a lot of great passive builds @ SPCR. It's a great community to join when looking into silent computing.

But their pure passive builds are extreme and frequently discouraged. Also, a tiny bit of active cooling does wonders. Just use high-quality very low RPM fans - for heatsinks and general case airflow, paired with case where there's no direct sight of fans, and low-power components. You shouldn't be able to hear any coils, rattling, or even air sound even at night with closed windows, and the performance will be an order of magnitude better than pure passive solution.

That workstation may be interesting, but I'd rather slam a few fans on it at around 300 RPM.

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Yeah, I hear you, been reading SPCR way before Guru tbh
I love their reviews of silent / quiet hardware, and actually made my last HTPC (LGA775) very quiet, if not silent... I couldn't hear it except anything else in my home turned off and all windows closed

It looks nice, I toyed with the idea of a passively cooled system with no moving parts. Even under the lowest TDP cpu's, still air will sit in your case so somewhere you need an exhaust fan. Even if it's a small 30mm fan. You just need something to move that air!

I undervolted and underclocked a 5800k, it pretty much took only using 2 cores and having it run about 2ghz I believe to keep safe temperatures with no fans.